Sorry, missed this post. There were others but I disagree with them.
I'm not concerned about the long term strand of history I won't be there. I don't want the best years of my life and vitality to be wasted in this world, but alas it's the world I'm given. I would so much rather be alive during the cold war than this shit. At least back then people knew to hate communists.
To people saying that these people don't have complete widespread support, neither did the bolsheviks or nazis. That's not how power works, not even in a republic or a democracy. If they did Bernie would have been nominated for the Democrats, not Biden. I expect 10-15 years of this shit at minimum, and that's quite a decent chunk of life to be an outcast that has to keep your head down. However they are a motivated powerbase that is growing, not shrinking, and all avenues of life are giving in, from the corporate world to mass media entertainment. People told me this was temporary 10 years ago, but look where we are now. When Trump was elected a friend told me that it was proof that things weren't so bad. A couple months ago he told me I was right about everything. So far I've been right about my doomering. I'm not a doomer for the sake of doom, it's just where I see everything heading. I've seen it for a long time. You look at the social forces at play and there's really no way to recover from this. Everyone thinks people are by default sane and rational, but The Man in the High Castle had it right, your child will look like Thomas Smith after the revolution. A kind and well-meaning person can do terrible or stupid things if that's the rational or normal around them.
I mean come on, we all have to remain anonymous expressing these opinions online because while they were mainstream 10 years ago now we might lose our jobs. 10-15 years is a long time compared to a human lifespan.
Believe me, I know what it's like to have close loved ones who have been brainwashed by what is essentially the shoddy sequel to Christianity but there's a part of me that thinks the summer of 2020 might just be the Woke Left's swan song like the Bush years were for the Religious Right or the chaos of the early 70's were for the New Left.
Have you noticed that this "Current Year" nonsense has pretty much lasted a decade as it is and that the intensification seemed to get steady and then it all happened way too fast all at once this year thanks to COVID-19?
This could be a case where they've overplayed their hand and are about to get their asses kicked by the ones truly in charge. I had been low-key predicting this since the latter half of 2019 but the unexpected pandemic and the George Floyd riots did shake me. Back in May and June, I still held to that belief but a lot of it was cope and if it weren't for the Section 230 and Antifa terrorist designation by the DOJ, I probably would've gone full doomer and overdosed on black pills.
But now things really have gone pear-shaped for BLM and Antifa, and I think the real white pill moment for me was seeing an IRL friend of mine who is notoriously left-leaning secretly bitch about BLM to me.
She doesn't know I'm anti-BLM or anti-Antifa and I just do the bare minimum to like the statuses on social media or whatever to avoid the wrath of the cancel mobs, but I've known her since I was a teen and she asked if I could keep a secret. Basically she was saying that a lot of the Antifa and BLM types on social media are going crazy and she's worried they will get Trump a second term because of how out of control things are.
This is a girl I've known to be a leftist all my life and who leaned hard into SJW stuff when this all got big, and even she's getting scared by all this. Keep in mind that the leftists who are the most likely to be secretly opposed to all this tend to have the Bill Maher-esque view of the riots being counterproductive and helping get Trump elected.
I'd imagine there's a lot of the more center-left types who might say they're pro-riots online and may even support BLM on a certain level as a concept, but secretly are against the actions of BLM and Antifa even if it's just because they fear a crackdown or backlash come November
Demoralization is one of those things that cuts both ways, and if Trump can win a second term in spite of all this madness, I think that will be a huge blackpill moment for the Woke Left in and of itself. If the corporate bigwigs also begin to distance themselves from this insanity post-2020, that will be another demoralizing moment for them.
Tigers are at their most violent and fierce right before they die, and at this point we could be at a point where the "New Bolshevik Revolution" was merely a dying tiger having one last hurrah just before the end.
Many old people in Russia have fond memories of the Soviet Union and praise it.. Eat enough shit and you enjoy the taste of Salo burgers.
Eh, the nostalgia for the Soviet Union is a bit of a unique case where it's largely just the Russian equivalents of the Baby Boomers and older Generation X'ers who miss their youths mixed with wanting to go back to a time before the bad economy, political instability, and high crime of the Yeltsin Administration in the 90's.
The Millennials and Zoomers in Russia tend to have a more dim view of the Soviet era and tend to lean more right-wing since they were either just kids during the "Russian 90's" or they weren't alive at all.
Keep in mind that this shit pretty much has been going on for about ten years and it has gotten worse but 2020 has had so much black swan chaos factors that too much is happening too fast and it's very likely to cause the actual backlash.
Trump's 2016 election was more like a potential warning sign of a backlash than the start of an actual one, but if he wins 2020, expect a lot of the Boomers and Karens who actually run the country to clean house and realize that 2016 was not a fluke. Doubly so if Trump can get really lucky and pull a popular vote win on top of an electoral college win. This could end up being a 21st Century version of a timeline where Julian the Philosopher survived the Parthian Campaign and was actually able to send the Christians and Jews packing.